New guy here! :D
 

Hey whats up everyone? My name is Josh, and I recently traded my '07 Cobalt SS in on a pristine '05 lava orange Mazdaspeed Miata. Having owned an '88 RX-7 convertible in the past, I can easily say it's nice to get back to my roots behind the wheel of a convertible Mazda :D

Anywho, I have big plans for the car, but I just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I look forward to meeting you all!

Here are a few pics I took @ my friend's house while out on my half hour test drive :)

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Welcome to the forum.

Nice looking car, welcome.

Good call on the trade in.

Thank you for the warm welcomes everyone!

I was just informed over on miata.net that there were only 394 lava orange Mazdaspeeds ever made! That blew my mind!

Hi Josh, Josh here. Welcome, and please don't turn into a "my car is too rare to mod" person, kthnxbye.

Paint it. lul

Welcome.

lol oh no worries there. Already have alot of big plans for it, including Stance GR+ coilovers, some custom low offset 16" J-Line 6SL2's and the Flyin' Miata little enchilada kit :bigtu:

Ah there we go! Now that is more like it. In for more pictures of your ride.

Ditch the Stance setup for FCM Bilsteins and the 16's for some uber sweet 15x9 6UL's. Once you have that setup, you'll never turn back :)

I guess you haven't seen what the new chevy engine is capable of. ZZP has a few 400 horse cars running around on stock bottom ends IIRC

Having been a member of the Cobalt community since '06, was a regional moderator on CobaltSS.net for several years, and have almost 13,000 posts on CobaltSS.net......yes, i'm quite aware of what a new Cobalt SS/TC is capable of.

However, I was very bored with Cobalt's.....make that FWD cars as a whole.

Maybe i'm in the wrong place, but I didn't get the car for power. The power is certainly a plus, and I enjoy driving it. But the end goal is to be a hard parker.

Troll says what? WTF is a hard parker. You might fit in better at cr.net.

Then with your previous forum interactions, you should have known i wasnt talking to you, but instead the person who said it was a good trade in. Both cars have their perks and downfalls, but you probably already know that :-)

Liked asked before, what is a "hard parker"? Was that term coined in the vdub world or something? not being an ass, but more serious as i've never heard that before.

is that "big plans" as in "huge shopping list and no money"?

there is only one y8s. and you cant afford.

duck. and then run.

also have you seen clubroadster.net and mazda-speed.net? those guys love cars that are only 1 out of 394 and parked hard. they LOVE them. seriously. Like sex with tailpipe love.

Think slammed with very low offset/wide fitment wheels. Lots of Miata's are already doing this, so I realize it's nothing new. But i've always felt Miata's pull the look off very well.

Who said I didn't have money? I spent most of the money I had saved on the down payment for the Miata. But I stripped alot of stuff off of the Cobalt.....most of which is already spoken for. I'll be using some of that money to get a start on things, and then chip away at what I want to do from there.

But no worries, i'll be using the factory 17"s as a track setup.........so it won't always be a hard parker. Just most of the time.

I'm gonna be honest and say that I don't even know what a y8s is. Your self-dubbed Miata maybe? Also I have nothing to hide. Yeah....I like impractical ride heights and wheels that aren't supposed to fit. So do hundreds of other people.....enough now to have desinated shows, forums, websites, etc etc. And being as i'll be running adjustable coilovers its not like I won't be able to adjust it to a more "reasonable" setting for the track/long trips.

And no, I haven't checked those sites out yet. My friend Jason told me about clubroadster, but I haven't visited the site yet. So far i've just joined here, miata.net and roadsterdrift.com.

Thanks for the input man. I like your obnoxious sense of humor. No homo.

Just because you don't agree with my taste in cars makes me a troll?

Tell ya what dude. Send me an exact spec sheet of your car. Year, color, options, what you have done to it......then I can make an exact replica of your car. And then you'll think i'm cool/have a cool car and we can be friends :jerkit:

Please, do not encourage him....

I would like to use this opportunity to retract my previous welcome to the forum comment.

I'm goinna shove your hand into the blender with the margarita mix.

I always considered hard parking as what people do in the city to get a 14' long car into a 15' long parking space. Pull forward until you hit the car in front, jockey it back until you hit the car in back and so on until you sawed your way into the spot.

Not at all, your plans for your miata are just so far away from what we do and like here that I figured you were from some other forum (which you said you were) to troll on us and call us all idiots. If not, never mind. Just be ready for everyone to call your plans for your MSM idiotic, we like function far far over form here, seems like your slightly more in the other direction.

If you made a copy of my car I'd call you an idiot, why would anyone want to copy a ghetto racer. I'm often embaressed to drive my car in public, must look like I can't drive stick with my on/off clutch, not to mention 1200rpm idle that rattles my teeth off.

I miss my e30 and it's 10 foot turning radius.

The miata turning radius isn't half bad... some times I feel like it's just pivoting on the rear wheels.

You do realize that changing ride height also changes your alignment and corner weights, right?

You're going to find that MT.net is mostly made up of people who value function over form... and aren't too tolerant of "hard parkers".

Pretty car though... and welcome to MT.net

Know what? I had to google hard parking to know what it was. Guess I am not that cool. I thought hard parking was grabbing your butt buddies boner while attempting to parallel park your doucher car riding on bump stops. But it is something just as gay, either way, I see why i wasn't too familiar with it.http://a307.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...22095151d2.jpg

Edit: I think i found a pic of you and your previous whip... yo. Hardparking is dope. Where can i get 0mm offset wheels again? Oh wait... isn't there some bot here that sells those?